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I would like to encourage such a move at least for all the license
clean-up this could bring in!! xml-apis, e.g. as distributed by maven,
would finally come with an easy to use pack of licenses!
(and a safe one!)
paul
Le 12 oct. 04, à 14:02, Neeraj Bajaj a écrit :
> Hello All,
>
>
> As most of you already know JSR 206 [1] JAXP 1.3 has become final.
> JAXP 1.3 adds lots of new features in the area of XML processing.
> It introduces new Schema independent validation framework which
> decouples the validation as a process independent from parsing.
> It allows to compile Schema to an immutable memory representation of
> Grammar which can validate different instances of XML document thus
> greatly improving the performance of XML processing. XPath language
> provides a simple, concise syntax for accessing individual parts of an
> XML document. JAXP 1.3 defines XPath APIs which provides access to
> the XPath evaluation environment and expression results independent
> of the underlying data object model. JAXP 1.3 also adds new Datatypes
> to the Java platform which maps to some of the W3C XML Schema
> Datatypes, Features for Secured XML processing etc. JAXP 1.3 also
> adds the ability to reset XML Parser and Transformer instance ,
> allowing
> application to reuse the same instance to process multiple XML
> documents. This also helps in increasing XML processing performance.
> JAXP 1.3 also upgrades to the W3C stds. like DOM L3 Core DOM L3 L/S,
> XML 1.1, XInclude.
>
> Sun Microsystems would like to donate JAXP 1.3 sources (API s +
> Reference Implementation) to Apache.
>
>
> Details of JAXP 1.3 sources to be donated:
>
> JAXP 1.3 sources contains the new JAXP 1.3 APIs and the RI (Reference
> Implementation). RI has been done using
> Xerces/Xalan as code base. RI contains the implementation of newly
> introduced Validation Framework [2], XPath APIs [3]
> , Datatypes [4] implementation, SAXParser, DocumentBuilder,
> Transformer Reset changes, Secured XML Processing changes.
> Implementation of W3C stds. DOM L3 Core, DOM L3 L/S, XML 1.1,
> XInclude already exist on Apache Xerces. So in the next
> section I have also proposed the way to merge rest of the JAXP 1.3 RI
> changes into Apache Xerces & Xalan project. I have also
> suggested where implementation component should reside i.e. Xerces or
> Xalan. Any idea or feedback for the smoother and
> expedited merger of JAXP 1.3 sources into Apache xml-commons, Xerces
> & Xalan is very welcome.
>
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 APIs:
>
> JAXP APIs has been at xml-commons for a long time as these set of
> APIs are used by many different projects.
> With JSR 206 declared as final and many new standards emerging, we
> should update xml-commons to JAXP 1.3
> APIs. I propose JAXP 1.3 APIs to be committed to xml-commons main
> trunk and apply a tag.
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 RI: (Implementation components that should be part of Xerces)
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 RI contains the implementation of following packages
>
> javax.xml.datatype
> javax.xml.validation
> javax.xml.parsers ( reset(), xinclude, etc.)
>
> which should reside at Xerces.
>
> I propose that we create a branch, and merge JAXP 1.3 RI changes into
> that branch. This will help
> other Xerces active committers to have a chance to look at it before
> these changes being finally
> committed to main trunk. This process would require merging changes
> to the branch and then committing
> changes to main trunk, i seek help of active Xerces committers.
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 RI: (Implementation components that should be part of Xalan)
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 RI also has the implementation of newly developed XPath
> (javax.xml.xpath.*) APIs which i think, should be part of
> Xalan/XSLTC project. Besdies this, JAXP 1.3 RI also contains changes
> done in "javax.xml.transform" package
> for ex. now application can use the same Transformer instance by
> invoking reset().
>
> I propose the same for the Xalan/XSLTC project that we create a
> branch and JAXP 1.3 Reference Implementation changes are
> put there. This will help other Xalan active committers to have a
> chance to look at it before these changes being finally
> committed to main trunk. Again i seek help of Xalan committers for
> this process.
>
>
> As always, all feedbacks are more than welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Neeraj
>
>
> [1] http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=206
> [2]
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/validation/package-
> summary.html
> [3]
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/xpath/package-
> summary.html
> [4]
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/datatype/package-
> summary.html
>
>
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